Whaley didn't say the jacket and trousers were blue.
Mr. BALL. Did you notice how he was dressed?
Mr. WHALEY. Yes, sir. I didn’t pay much attention to it right then. But it
all came back when I really found out who I had. He was dressed in just
ordinary work clothes. It wasn’t khaki pants but they were khaki material,
blue faded blue color, like a blue uniform made in khaki. Then he had on a
brown shirt with a little silverlike stripe on it and he had on some kind
of jacket, I didn’t notice very close but I think it was a work jacket that
almost matched the pants.
Whaley might have been confused on the matter of there being a "jacket". The shirt was similar to a jacket.
Mr. BALL. When he came in he was in a shirt?
Mrs. ROBERTS. He was in his shirt sleeves.
Mr. BALL. What color was his shirt? Do you know?
Mrs. ROBERTS. I don't remember. I didn't pay that much attention
for I was interested in the television trying to get it fixed.
For that matter, here's Whaley's original affidavit:
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth340356/m1/1/?q=whaleyIn it he describes his passenger as "small, 5'8 or so, slender, had on a dark shirt with white spots of something on it. he had a bracelet on his left wrist. He looked like he was 25 or 26 years old."
Nothing about a jacket, blue or not. For that matter, nothing about blue, either.
And here is Whaley describing his passenger in the FBI's 11/23/63 interview report:
Whaley described the passenger "wearing a heavy identification bracelet on his left wrist, he appeared to need a haircut, and was dressed in gray khaki pants which looked like they had been slept in. He had on a dark colored shirt with some light color in it. The shirt had long sleeves and the top two or three buttons were unbuttoned. The color of the shirt nearly matched the pants, but was somewhat darker. The man wore no had. He appeared to be 25 years of age, 5' 7" to 8" tall, about 135 pounds with brown hair thick on top."
Also, no jacket was described, and no blue anywhere.
